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HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Fortnite And Roblox Are Changing Social Media As We Know It
5 min · · Games are becoming the way kids communicate with their friends these days. Much like the previous generation used to do at basketball courts and skate parks. · Shared by 46, including Amy Jo Kim, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Matthew Turland
Pew Research Center
Smartphone, Social Media Users Have Broader Social Networks In Emerging Economies
9 min · · Smartphone users in emerging economies – especially those who use social media – tend to be more exposed to people with different backgrounds and more connected with friends they don’t see in person. · Shared by 24, including Pew Research Internet, Scott Monty, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Carla Gentry 🎶
The New York Times
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.
20+ min · · Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers. · Shared by 120, including estherderby 🌻, DeLong🖖, Austin Kleon, Meeting of the Minds, Shawn Venasse, Josep M. Ganyet, Peter Merholz, Joanna J Bryson, Stowe Boyd, Gerry Gaffney, trudy, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Tim Müller, Michael (मुकेश), Miles Kimball, Carly, Jonathan Kogan, Esther Schindler, Nilofer Merchant, Liv 😷
TNW
Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
3 min · · Apple ups its privacy batte with a new "WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy" that aims to prevent all forms covert tracking online. · Shared by 56, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ste Davies
Twitter
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
2 min · · We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change. · Shared by 74, including hardmaru, Thomas Power, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Wong, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Luca Hammer, luis antónio santos, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Renee DiResta, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mark Kaigwa, mrbrown
The New Republic
No Law Can Ban White Supremacy From the Internet
8 min · · Gutting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act will cause more problems than it solves. · Shared by 19, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mathew Ingram
Human Rights Watch
Zimbabwe Police Forcefully Disrupt Peaceful Protests
1 min · · Armed anti-riot police in Zimbabwe forcibly dispersed hundreds of protesters today, using teargas, batons, and whips, tarnishing the image President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tried to paint of a new… · Shared by 8, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
The Guardian
Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
11+ min · · Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviours who could combat the Nazi threat. They speak to the dark politics of out times · Shared by 104, including Brad Brooks, The Daily Heller, Howard Getson, Konrad Lischka, Esther Schindler, Yvette Dubel, Felix M, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
The New Yorker
The Fight to Redefine Racism
16+ min · · In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description. · Shared by 60, including Jane, danabramov.bsky.social, Felix M, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Samira El Ouassil, Oliver Traldi, Jochen Burkhard, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
3 min · · Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future · Shared by 147, including Lee Keyes, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mike Butcher, Yvette Dubel, Martina Pugliese, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Michael Grupe, dreig (Dolors Reig), 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 瑞拿頭, Dr Jim Walsh, Fern, Simon Wüthrich
The Wall Street Journal
Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
· Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. Huawei… · Shared by 59, including Mark Kaigwa, The Cipher Brief, Benedict Evans, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jacqui Lough, Mike Butcher, Trey Tweets Into the Void
wehuntedthemammoth.com
Actually, it's about Zoe Quinn. The midwife of #GamerGate has no regrets.
4 min · · Do you remember when #GamerGate was young? You know, back before #NotYourShield and Vivian James and bizarrely complicated conspiracy theories involving Gawker, Weird Twitter and some sort of inter… · Shared by 5, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
The New York Times
How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War
3 min · · The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war. · Shared by 199, including 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Stephanie A Kowalski, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Charles Baldwin, Felix M, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Liz Lumley, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jane
Forbes
Why AI And Chatbots Need Personality
4 min · · Learn why chatbots need personality and what should be considered when you are determining what personality your chatbot has. · Shared by 60, including Terence Mills, David Doughty, Nicolas Babin, LARRY ELKAN, Mark Kaigwa, Steve Tunstall, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Andreas Staub, Ronald van Loon, Jonathan Kogan, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Klaus Eck, 瑞拿頭, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
MIT Technology Review
Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.
11+ min · · Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth. · Shared by 149, including Steve Faktor, Gerd Leonhard, Thomas Power, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Oleg Baskov, Vikram Dutt, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, John Nosta, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Glyn Britton, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, John Hagel, Arin Basu, Jonathan Kogan, Builtvisible, Michael Grupe, Hans Bickhofe, Eckart Burgwedel, kp, Mark Hasebroock
TNW
Study: Trump's paid Peter Thiel's Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE's mass-surveillance network
3 min · · Perhaps no other company has profited more from the Trump administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants — and US citizens of similar appearance — than Peter Thiel‘s Palantir. A recent… · Shared by 20, including ❤️ Umair, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, TNW Top Stories, Charles Baldwin, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN